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7. whow. --Gableman and his thugs did NOT keep any records!!
Thu Aug 18, 2022, 02:53 PM
Aug 2022



Judge issues scathing rebuke of Michael Gableman, his out-of-state attorneys


https://captimes.com/news/government/judge-issues-scathing-rebuke-of-michael-gableman-his-out-of-state-attorneys/article_b5546a6d-717b-5df4-a8c7-5ea132dc3967.html?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter_CapTimes

By Jack Kelly 20 hrs ago







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Remington also said evidence from the early months of the review “speaks for itself.”

“(The Office of Special Counsel) accomplished nothing,” Remington said of Gableman’s review. “It kept none of the weekly progress reports the Wisconsin State Assembly required it to keep. It recorded no interviews with witnesses. It gathered no measurable data. It organized no existing data into any analytical format. It generated no reports based on any special expertise.”

“Instead, it gave its employees code names like ‘coms’ or ‘3,’ apparently for the sole purpose of emailing back and forth about news articles and drafts of speeches,” Remington continued. “It printed copies of reports that better investigators had already written, although there is no evidence any person connected with OSC ever read these reports, let alone critically analyzed their factual and legal bases to draw his or her own principled conclusions.”

Remington said the “time has come and gone for (the office) to show its substance. There simply is nothing there.”


He also said that if the case had not been appealed, he could sanction Bopp and the other attorneys representing the Office of Special Counsel for “their specious legal arguments.”

“I could sanction them doubly for their baseless factual statements under (state statute),” the judge continued. “However, the case is long since passed to the judges of the court of appeals. I trust, now, in their capable judgment to enforce the will of the legislature that we ‘deter repetition of such conduct or comparable conduct.’”

“Let this decision set the record straight,” Remington said in conclusion.

The Office of Special Counsel is currently staffless, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told reporters Tuesday. Vos last week fired Gableman after the election reviewer endorsed his primary opponent.

The speaker said he was uncertain about the next steps for the flurry of lawsuits the office is involved in, and needed to speak further with the Legislature’s attorneys before providing an update.







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A Dane County judge issued a scathing opinion Wednesday that chastised the Wisconsin Office of Special Counsel — once headed by Michael Gableman — and its attorneys for applying “phony legal principles to invented facts” in a records-related lawsuit concerning Gableman’s review of the 2020 presidential election.
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